I’m coming to mop up all the titles at light-welterweight.
That was the chilling warning to the men in the mix at 10 stone from Commonwealth king, Glenn Foot, following the news he wanted on the British championship front.
The Sunderland hardman will fight Robbie Davies Jnr for the British title before the end of October.
Britain’s Boxing Board of Control had ordered Glenn Foot v Josh Leather 2 for the Lonsdale Belt vacated by Jack Catterall.
But the BBBC put the purse bids process on hold after Leather opted to fight Ohara Davies.
Now the BBBC has proposed Foot v Davies after learning that Leather is hanging up his gloves, or certainly taking a break, after a winning run of 13 bouts, the highlight being his IBF European triumph.
Foot-Leather 2 was the fight the boxing public craved, not to mention Foot, after the Guisborough boxer beat the Marley Pots man in a titanic tussle at the Metro Radio Arena last November.
However, Foot v Davies is hardly a shabby contest.
Davies is the WBA Continental light-welterweight champion after a 12th-round stoppage of Poland’s Michal Syrowatka in his home city of Liverpool.
The Scouser can bang, having amassed 12 of his 16 wins inside the distance.
But Foot, who won the Commonwealth crown in March with a stunning stoppage win in Glasgow over the previously unbeaten Jason Easton, wants British title and aims to get it. In fact, he wants all the belts he can get his mitts on.
“I’m in the best shape I’ve been in two years, possibly forever,” said the 30-year-old.
“I’m going to get the British, that’s the main one.
“To all the light-welterweights out there, I’m coming for you and I’m coming to mop up.”
Foot will sign off the season on Saturday night in the same venue he suffered his heartbreaking defeat to Leather.
The Phil Jeffries-managed fighter, trained in Peterlee by Dave Binns, will take on Ricky Rose over six rounds on the mammoth Matchroom bill in Newcastle.
“It feels great to be on this show, which is full of the North-East’s best fighters,” said Foot pictured in Matchroom’s public work-out at the Metro Centre on Wednesday . “I feel fantastic, I’ve never been out of the gym since I won the Commonwealth title.”
Words: Roy Kelly Picture: Jennifer Charlton
